AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:10:32

Associate secretaries:
Michel L Lapidus, AMS lapidus@math.ucr.edu, lapidus@mathserv.ucr.edu

Saturday May 3, 2003, 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Topological Quantum Computation, I
Room 428, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology kitaev@cs.caltech.edu
Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County lomonaco@umbc.edu
- 9:00 a.m.
  Nonabelian phases in electronic and bosonic Hubbard models.
  Michael Freedman*, Microsoft Research
  (987-81-203)
- 10:00 a.m.
  A subexponential time algorithm for the dihedral hidden subgroup problem.
  Greg Kuperberg*, UC Davis
  (987-68-130)

Saturday May 3, 2003, 3:00 p.m.-5:45 p.m.
Special Session on Topological Quantum Computation, II
Room 428, Thornton Hall
Organizers:
Alexei Kitaev, California Institute of Technology kitaev@cs.caltech.edu
Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland, Baltimore County lomonaco@umbc.edu
- 3:00 p.m.
  Quantum Entanglement and Topological Entanglement.
  Louis H Kauffman*, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Samuel J. Lomonaco, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  (987-81-174)
- 4:00 p.m.
  Quantum computations using anyons from finite groups.
  Carlos Mochon*, Caltech
  (987-68-109)
- 5:00 p.m.
  Quantum Invariants of 3-Manifolds and Quantum Computation.
  Sergey Bravyi*, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech
  Alexei Kitaev, Institute for Quantum Information, Caltech
  (987-00-167)

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